Net::DNS::RR::TXT(3p)

NAME
Net::DNS::RR::TXT - DNS TXT resource record

SYNOPSIS
"use Net::DNS::RR";

DESCRIPTION
Class for DNS Text (TXT) resource records.

METHODS

  txtdata
    print "txtdata = ", $rr->txtdata, "\n";

Returns the descriptive text as a single string, regardless of actual number of <character-string> elements. Of questionable value. Should be deprecated.

Use "$txt->rdatastr()" or "$txt->char_str_list()" instead.

  char_str_list
 print "Individual <character-string> list: \n\t",
       join("\n\t", $rr->char_str_list());

Returns a list of the individual <character-string> elements, as unquoted strings. Used by TXT->rdatastr and TXT->rr_rdata.

NB: rdatastr will return quoted strings.

FEATURES
The RR.pm module accepts semi-colons as a start of a comment. This is to allow the RR.pm to deal with RFC1035 specified zonefile format.

For some applications of the TXT RR the semicolon is relevant, you will need to escape it on input.

Also note that you should specify the several character strings separately. The easiest way to do so is to include the whole argument in single quotes and the several character strings in double quotes. Double quotes inside the character strings will need to be escaped.

my $TXTrr=Net::DNS::RR->new('txt2.t.net-dns.org.    60    IN
    TXT "Test1 \" \; more stuff" "Test2"');

would result in $TXTrr->char_str_list())[0] containing 'Test1 " ; more stuff' and $TXTrr->char_str_list())[1] containing 'Test2'

Note that the rdatastr method (and therefore the print, and string method) returns the escaped format.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1997-2002 Michael Fuhr.

Portions Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Chris Reinhardt. Portions Copyright (c) 2005 Olaf Kolkman (NLnet Labs)

All rights reserved. This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO
perl(1), Net::DNS, Net::DNS::Resolver, Net::DNS::Packet, Net::DNS::Header, Net::DNS::Question, Net::DNS::RR, RFC 1035 Section 3.3.14